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85%Weight 40%Scale 1-5Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
A well-engineered instruction-only skill: a clearly sequenced workflow with mandatory checks and feedback loops, appropriate progressive disclosure to a verified one-level-deep reference, and highly concrete operational details. Its only real costs are duplicated rule statements and the absence of any worked example inline.
Suggestions
De-duplicate rules stated twice: the banned-verb list and the flowchart shape rules appear in both 'Core diagramming principles' and the step 4/5 checks — state each once and cross-reference (e.g. 're-run the edge-label check from the principles section').
Add one compact worked example — a single sample plan entry (id, title, question, notation, edge semantics) — so the plan format is copy-paste concrete rather than only field-described.
Trim step 6 layout detail slightly (the 1600x900 pitch sentence overlaps what the loaded composer guidance already states) to cut tokens without losing actionability.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense, imperative, and free of concept re-teaching, but the banned-verb list and the shape rules are each stated twice (Core diagramming principles and again in steps 4–5), so it is efficient with minor trimmable repetition — anchor 4, not 3 (no padded explanation) and not 5 (every token does not quite earn its place). | 4 / 5 |
Actionability | Guidance is highly concrete (exact widget data-types, the 1600x900 layout pitch, XML-escaping rules, plan fields, update-vs-regenerate semantics), but no worked example (a sample plan entry or Mermaid fragment) appears inline; the explicit deferral of format mechanics to runtime-loaded guidance is a justified flexibility, placing this at anchor 4 rather than 5 or 3. | 4 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps 0–7 are clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints: MANDATORY pre-compilation checks, a final shape audit, and a reflow feedback loop that iterates from the latest result_svg until spacing is clean, plus explicit error reporting ("if a diagram fails, report the error with the offending Mermaid as-is") — matching the 5 anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The SKILL.md is a well-organized overview that inlines only the essentials and pushes the full R1–R9/H1–H4 ruleset to references/diagramming-principles.md (verified to exist, one level deep, clearly signaled in the References section), matching the 5 anchor. | 5 / 5 |
Total | 18 / 20 Passed |